Nishizuka (2022): From Assessment for Learning to Assessment for Expansion: Proposing a New Paradigm of Assessment as a Sociocultural Practice

Formative assessment is widely known as an important concept for improving learning.However, does simply incorporating ...
Education Week

Assessment for Deeper Learning: Reclaiming the Power of Assessment

In a climate where there continues to be a movement among parents and educators to opt out of standardized tests, ‘assessment’ has become a dirty word. However, assessment in itself isn’t to blame.
Education Week

Using Assessment to Strengthen Teaching and Learning

Rachel C. Syrja, a teacher on special assignment for the office of instruction in the El Monte City, Calif., school district, has designed districtwide staff development in assessment for learning, ...
KQED

How Assessments Can Support, Not Just Measure, Student Learning

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation.
Brookings Institution

Education system alignment for 21st century skills

Please see related publication on the use of data from 21st century skills assessments and interpreting learning outcomes to inform teaching and learning. There has been a major shift in educational ...
Inside Higher Ed

Q&A: Toward Better Assessments in Online Courses

Does anyone really know the definition of a "good" assessment? Does such a thing even exist? The second question has no clear answer (which means it's not likely to show up on an assessment any time ...
Medicine Buffalo

Designing Assessments

Assessments in education measure student achievement. These may take the form traditional assessments such as exams, or quizzes, but may also be part of learning activities such as group projects or ...
Brookings Institution

Optimizing Assessment for All: Assessment as a stimulus for scaling 21st century skills in education systems

This paper marks the final installment in a series of five reports detailing the work of the Optimizing Assessment for All project at Brookings to strengthen education systems’ capacity to integrate ...
The Conversation

Universities should learn from assessment methods used during the pandemic – and cut down on exams for good

Timed written examinations continue to dominate university assessment. In most professions, the need to recall and write down specific information from memory under timed conditions is rare. Yet every ...
Drexel University

Assessing Student Learning

Helping students progress towards their educational goals involves communicating how far they have come and how far they have yet to go. This is the role of assessment. Designing meaningful assessment ...
HR Dive

Most companies use assessments to measure training success, ATD says

Most organizations use some type of performance or test assessment to measure the effectiveness of their learning and development programs, according to a Sept. 12 report from the Association for ...